Rail-fastening for concrete ties



E. ROGERS.

RAIL FASTENING FOR cowcmms TIES.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 24,1921.

Patented Aug. 30, 1921.

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hlllll| I UNITED, STATES PATENT OFFICE,

nnwru nocnns, or AURORA, ILLINOIS.-

RAIL-FASTENING FQR CONCRETE Tins.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, EDWIN ROGERS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Aurora, in the county of Kane and State of Illinois, have invented a certain; new and useful Improvement inRaiLFastenings for Concrete Ties, of which the following is a specifica tion. v

This invention relates to railroad track equipment, particularly that in which concrete ties are used for supporting metallic rails-one form for such tie'being shown in my prior Patent No. 1,204,904, dated November 14, 1916 and another improved form of fastening for the rail and tie being shown in my Patent .No. 1,358,468, dated Novemher 9, 1920 on which later patent this device is more or less of an improvement.

y The object of this invention is to provide wide area as it enters the ground.

The invention consists in means for-carrying out the foregoing objects, which can be easily and cheaply made, which is satisfactory in use and is not readily liable to get out of order. More particularly the invention consists in details and features of construction hereafter morefully set forth in the specification and claims.

Referringto the drawings in which similar numerals represent the same parts throughout the several views:

Figure 1 is a side view of a railroad rail and a transverse view of the tie on which it rests showing the mechanism ,0 this invention combined therewith.

Fig. 2 is a sectional View through the rail on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. i

Fig. 3 is a sectional detail view on the line 33 of Fig. 1. V

Fig. 4 is a sectional detail view on the line 4 of Fig. 1.

In carrying out this invention a plurality of ties 10, preferably of the type shownin Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 30, 1921.

- 'mp ncaeon filed January 24,1921. Serial No. 439,425.

the ground and over them are laid the rails passing trains. Each rail is'secured to each In the same vertical plane with each rail and below it is an .angle'iron. 14, shaped as said first mentioned patent are placed along '12 in suitable position for-sustaining, the

shownin the dr'awing'so that it passes under e the bottom of the adjacenttie,thenupward in angular lines as shown and -finally con- I tacts the bottom of the rail in horizontal portions 16. Each of these last mentioned portions is secured to the rail flange by a detachable clamping jaw 18, suitably secured in place byadetachable bolt 20 as clearly ap pears in Fig. 2. At thepoints Where the angle iron turns the lower corners 24 of the tie these angle irons are perforated to allow for the passage of U-shaped rods 26, having the bottom portions of the U form passing through the angle irons as shown in Fig. 3 and thence up to and through a plate 28 on which the rail rests. The upper ends of these members 26 are suitably secured above this plate and the adjacent rail flange by any suitable means, as for instance, the

washer nut mechanism 30. In order to carry the load which is transmitted from the rail 12 down these members 26 and down the angle irons 14 to the ground without all of it passing through the tie 10, the rods 26 have pivoted to them below the angle irons, link 1424 described exerts a pull on these members 32 which. is resisted by the members 34 -36 in the obvious manner, whereby part of a load is transmitted into the ground through the members 36, while part of it is carried to the ground directly by the tie 10.

Being'divided in this way the load is not suflicient at any one point to cause injury to any of the parts.

The parts described are so rigidly secure to the railthat it cannot creep in either direction-this largely because the upward inclined portions of the angle irons 14 brace the ortions of the rail between the ties and prevent their sagging as the e'arwheels pass over them which sagging of these intervening portions is well understood to be one of the main causes of rail creeping.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. In combination with a railroad rail and a tie therefor, a securing member attached to the rail at some distance on opposite sides of the tie, thence extending angularly downward to and below the tie, U-shaped sustaining rods located immediately adjacent to the sides of the tie passing through the first mentioned securing member, thence directly upward to the rail and means for securing these rods to the rail flanges. l

2. In combination with a railroad rail and a tie therefor, a securing member attached to the rail at some distance on opposite sides witnesses.

of the tie thence extending 'angularly downward to and below the tie, U-shaped sustaining-rods located immediately adjacent to the sides of the tie passing through the first mentioned securing member, thence directly upwardto the rail, means for securing these rods to the rail flanges, foundations set in the ground in which the device normally rests at points on opposite sides of the tie and upwardly inclined link connections between these foundation devices andthe points of connection between the first two mentioned members.

a In Witness whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two EDWIN ROGERS. Witnesses: V i i DWIGHT B. CHEEVER, VELMA GRIFFITH. 

